Events
Medicine Buddha Day
March 26th, April 24th, May 24th, June 22nd, July 22, No August, September 19th, October 18th, November 17th, December 17th
7-8:30pm Eastern Time
LIVE ON ZOOM
with Melanie Ryan
Registration: $25
Join Melanie Ryan, psychotherapist, and Tibetan Buddhist Teacher, for a guided meditation and deep healing. When we purify our minds of negative thoughts and beliefs, we clear ourselves of what blocks our true light.
This is a monthly meditation community gathering that will take place on Medicine Buddha Day, a day for healing and purification. Each month Melanie will offer a dharma teaching and meditation practice that invokes the Medicine Buddha. This can be used for self healing as well as sharing for the healing of others.
All levels welcome. This will be live online & recorded. If you cannot attend live, you can register and we will send you the recording within 24 hours.
Contributions will fund our documentary, TRAGICAL that will be filmed in Bhutan this October & November. Please contribute $25 or more if you can.
Venmo- Melanie-Ryan-33 (note TRAGICAL)
Zelle-Info@AncientWisdomToday.com
TRAGICAL BHUTAN gofundme:
Golden Shadow Retreat Greece 2026
June 2026
Max of 10 travelers
The 2026 retreat will be our 5th time to Greece and we can't wait to share it with you! Golden Shadow retreats are geared toward professional educators, healers, therapists, doctors, nurses, caretakers, and anyone who has a sincere interest in using ancient wisdom to heal themselves and others.
Led by Melanie Ryan and Andy Steigmeier, the Greece retreat takes you off the beaten path and into the heart and soul of ancient Greece. You will heal through the myths, legends, beauty and sacred sites. Greek archetypes teach us about the hidden energies within us. From Apollo to Chiron, and Asklepius to Hippocrates, we dive into the lineage of ancient Greek holistic health, healing, poetry, and soul.
The Golden Shadow Method
Omega Institute
August 21-23, 2026
SAVE THE DATE
Join Melanie Ryan, best-selling author, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher for a weekend retreat into the “golden shadow” where your most beautiful, positive qualities are stored. Using Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and Indigenous wisdom, we will journey into the unconscious and embrace the positive qualities that are suppressed. These include our psychic abilities, our creativity, joy, and playfulness. We will transmute dark shadow blocks into light, transmuting lower frequencies into higher vibrations of love, harmony, wisdom and joy. This is a deep remembering of the powerful love and light that lives within.
Tragical Documentary in Bhutan
In October 2026, Melanie Ryan, Andy Steigmeier, and filmmaker Joe Plante will travel to Bhutan — known as the “Happiest Country in the World” — to complete filming. There, within Himalayan monasteries and sacred landscapes, Buddhist teachers, lamas, and practitioners will share teachings on impermanence, rebirth, and the sacred nature of death.
The film will capture:
- Rarely visited Himalayan mountain temples
- Intimate ceremonies with Buddhist masters
- Living spiritual traditions of archery and primitive skills passed down for centuries
- Cultural expressions of reverence and joy
Tragical is a journey of Justin’s Spirit helping Melanie & Andy, and all of humanity transform grief into a magical awakening of consciousness.
It invites us all to reflect ~
Who are we beyond the body?
What if understanding death allows us to live more fully?
What if remembering our impermanence is the doorway to inner peace and joy?
This documentary is dedicated to the benefit of all beings.
Support Our Mission
Please support the filming of Tragical in Bhutan and help ancient wisdom bring healing to our modern world. 🙏
Select Your Method of Contribution:
Camp Level Up
for Parents with a Child in Spirit
This is a project created in honor of Melanie’s dearly departed son Justin Bodhi. Camp Level Up is the sleep away camp he attended a few months before he passed. Level Up is a video game term that Melanie began to playful use in reference to leveling up in consciousness. After Justin passed, he came to her in meditation and said, “I died to help you level up.” What does that mean? It means to spiritually awaken. That death and the loss of a child can be traumatic, yet one of the greatest gifts of spiritual awakening.
Camp Level Up is a group forum for spiritually minded parents with a child in spirit. It is to support growth, healing, and forward motion in transmuting trauma and opening to the gifts our children in spirit want to offer us. Drawing from culturally diverse spiritual traditions, Melanie shares a path of spiritual awareness that transcends illusions, expands our ideas of the nature of reality.
Justin Bodhi passed at the age of 15 from an asymptomatic aneurysm. He is known to be a Bodhisattva and is a guide in elevating consciousness. Melanie communicates with Justin in spirit. Together they co-create books and courses designed to elevate consciousness, to LEVEL UP and find inner and outer peace.
Email Melanie directly to join this online forum:
